Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...APRIL 25TH rally is not merely a student rally. The mobilization was called by a group of labor and religious leaders. The people going to this rally are working people of all religions, from all over the country. Students will attend in force too. Over 16 busses are reserved from the schools in western Massachusetts alone...
That is because the pieces echo each other in odd, intriguing ways. Gordon returns habitually, hypnotically, to a small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found...
...chose to attend Harvard without regard to setting up a similar business in the Northeast. "I've never been much of a student," he says, "so I figured I would just try to keep my head above water academically when I got here...
...benefited from the new attention to leisure. In 1986 a record 5.4 million Japanese went abroad, 80% of them on vacation. Says Akio Morita, 52, the chairman of Sony: "I envy the younger generation of Japanese. They are citizens of the world." At present some 39,400 Japanese children attend primary or secondary school abroad, and 13,300 students are enrolled in colleges in the U.S. Moreover, Japan is currently host to 18,000 foreign students, a number that Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone hopes will swell to 100,000 by the turn of the century. To accelerate crosscultural pollination...
Because Mandela is imprisoned in South Africa and cannot attend commencement exercises, awarding the degree to him caused much debate among the regent, who said their decision to award the degree was unconnected to recent anti-racist protests. The Daily reported...